08 Flashcards
wide awake
Tamamen uyanık
raisins
Kuru üzüm
“Biraz kuru üzüm ister misin? - Do you want some raisins?”
Do the math
“diesel prices in my area are approximately 7% more than regular gas, but the mileage is over 20% greater—do the math”
Parçaları bir araya getirmek
Hesap yapmak
= make a calculation or come to a conclusion based on the relevant facts and figures, typically with the implication that the result is or should be obvious.
“diesel prices in my area are approximately 7% more than regular gas, but the mileage is over 20% greater—do the math”
Cranky
Huysuz
Kötü gününde olan
= NORTH AMERİCAN
bad-tempered; irritable.
“he was cranky after eight hours of working”
= İNFORMAL•BRİTİSH
eccentric or strange.
“a cranky scheme to pipe ground-level ozone into the stratosphere”
gloat
= to feel or express great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else’s failure or bad luck:
= gloat over/about - “She’s continually gloating over/about her new job.”
“I know I shouldn’t gloat, but it really serves him right.”
= gloat at - His enemies were quick to gloat at his humiliation.
= dwell on one’s own success or another’s misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure.
“his enemies gloated over his death”
get back on track
Normale dönmek
Ergo
“she was the sole beneficiary of the will, ergo the prime suspect”
Yani, dolayısıyla
= therefore.
“she was the sole beneficiary of the will, ergo the prime suspect”
Hillbilly
Gundi
Köylü
Kıro
an unsophisticated country person, as associated originally with the remote regions of the Appalachians.
2.
old-fashioned term for country music.
“he played sweet hillbilly guitar”
Are we there yet?
Daha gelmedik mi?
Do your own thing
Kafana göre takıl
I over you
Seni unuttum
Beat someone to it
“He got the story printed quickly, in case someone beat him to it.”
“We’re going make an offer on Bob’s house and we’re hoping that no one else has beaten us to it.”
Birinden önce davranmak
= to do something before someone else does it:
“I was just going to clean the kitchen, but you beat me to it.”
= succeed in doing something or getting somewhere before someone else.
“you’d better get a move on or they’ll beat you to it”
Jenny
“A jenny could spin from six to twenty-four times more yarn than a hand spinner.”
Çıkrık
sanctimonious
Everyone finds me annoying. When people become aware of the fact that I am reading “The Power Broker,” they immediately think I am a sanctimonious jerk, regardless of whether I even mention “The Power Broker.”
Ahlaklılık taslayan
Sahte sofu
= making a show of being morally superior to other people.
“what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?”
one-horse town
“And in many of the one-horse towns that hosted Futures events, there weren’t any sights to see.”
by Conor Niland
A small and unimportant place, as in “Ours was just a one-horse town until the nuclear plant was built .” This expression, first recorded in 1857, presumably alluded to a town so small that a single horse would suffice for its transportation needs.
